Escape characters

Definition

Escape characters are special characters that are used to represent certain actions or non-printable characters within a string. They are preceded by a backslash (\) and allow you to include characters like quotes, newlines, or tabs in your strings.

Related terms

String literals: A sequence of characters enclosed in double quotes ("") or single quotes ('').

Backslash (\): An escape character used to indicate the start of an escape sequence.

Newline character (\n): An escape sequence that represents a line break in a string.